Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gracie Jeffries, a fifth grade student at Olive Tree Care in Loudonville, has an eye-to-eye encounter with a gray rat snake during ...

A mother sea turtle crawls back to the ocean on Thursday, July 5 after Friends of Hunting Island volunteers helped rescue her from under a fallen tree. Friends of Hunting Island Sea Turtle ...

One squash slept on the windowsill, another beneath the sink. Both stayed firm and delicious all winter and then some, far into the next year. Lia Babitch and co-manager Ian Robb of Turtle Tree Seed ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Regarding "Dead sea turtle taken to NOAA's Galveston lab after washing up at Seabrook home" (Chron.com, Thursday), since 2003, the Turtle Island Restoration Network has sponsored the sea turtle rescue ...

It’s a common enough event: Someone finds a freshwater turtle—possibly a tiny hatchling—and they consider keeping it as a pet. But is it a good idea to keep a wild turtle? Are they difficult to care ...